bele wrote:
"Certainly age is a factor, but to set age limits would indeed be discriminatory"
You posted this above in reply to the post I made.
It is nonsense, pure NONSENSE.
The Constitution already has "limits" regarding age "baked into" it since its inception.
Of course, such limits are "mandatory minimums", to wit:
- 25 years of age to run for House
- 30 years of age to run for Senate
- 35 years of age to run for president or vice president.
No court has, and no court will, declare this to be "unconstitutional" age discrimination.
If the Constitution can set mandatory minimum ages as a matter of practicality and common sense, so too could it stipulate mandatory retirement ages, again as a matter of common sense.
And again, no court would be able to challenge such a stipulation, because it would be "Constitutional" by virtue of being adopted as a part of the Constitution itself.